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Technology sure has come a long way
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I mean.. yeah, having all the electronic gadgets that spy on you and let you read the post of the worlds united village yokels is great, but, just as a thought... why do i need to recharge my phone at least once a day when the Atari Portfolio (which was / is a nearly full IBM PC compatible computer) that was build in '89 did last about A MONTH on 3 AA batteries that i could buy nearly everywhere in the world?
Imagine a world where not every consumer electronic is controled by layers upon layers upon layers of cruft running on an operating system that in its core still thinks it is powering an PDP11 and talking to a bunch of teletypes...
Most of the charge is consumed by bright big colourful screen. Atari Portfolio had a black and white screen that supports 4 lines of text with no backlight.
Right... BUT it was perfectly readable in bright daylight!
Yeah, kind of